Record-calendar.



G. H. DEATONI RECORD CALENDAR.

APPLICATION FILED JAN-12.19l7.

Patented July 31, 1917.

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RECORD-CALENDAR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 31, 1917.

Application filed January 12, 1917. Serial N 0. 141,936.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEoRon H. DnAToN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Record-Calendars, of which the following is a specification.

The invention has for its object the provision of a device for preserving private daily records of current events, and comprises a pad of sheets suitably secured to gether with a backing sheet and cover sheet, the sheets other than the backing and cover each constituted of two portions joined by a weakened line, the one portion exhibiting a monthly calendar with the days of the current month and of the week in proper columnar relation, and the other portion divided into spaces corresponding in number to and designated by the days of the month and suited for the entry of daily records of events occurring during that month. The latter or record portion is permanently bound to the backing sheet and has permanently associated therewith a cover sheet which latter may be employed for the advertisement of the donor, if used for advertising purposes, or may be suitably ornamented as by a picture or the like.

The cover sheet and backing sheet of the calendar pad are of tough flexible material such as cloth or other fabric thus enabling the device to be rolled for mailing and to prevent the cover sheet being torn ofi. The cover sheet is preferably hinged at one edge and cli ped to the backing sheet and intermediate sheet at its free edge in such manner as to enable the cover sheet to be lifted for writing entries on the underlying record portion, or for referring to the entries previously written, the clip holding the cover sheet normally in protective relation to the record portion. The clip may, however, be dispensed with and a weighted marginal reinforcement be depended upon to hold the cover sheet down upon the record portion.

The present invention is an improvement upon a somewhat similar calendar formerly devised by me and patented November 17, 1914, No. 1,117,802; the device of the present application being less complicated, much cheaper to produce, more eflicient in safeguarding privacy of records, better adapted for mailing, and in every respect more suitable for the purposes for which such a record calendar is intended.

The record calendar is intended primarily for free distribution as an advertising device, although it may be put out for sale in de Zuwe form. As an advertising device it is of great i portance that the construction be such that i ts cost is reduced to a minimum; that it may be rolled for mailing, thus sav ing the expense of an envelop; that the permanent portion, backing and cover, be as nearly indestructible as possible; and that the device be so simple in manipulation that any one can use it without extensive explanation, and yet full provision be made for the making of daily entries and for their privacy.

The separable monthly calendar portions, the permanently bound record portions, the overlying cover sheet weighted or clipped to the private record portions, and the flexible tough nature of the backing sheet and cover sheet are features of great importance and serve to commend the device beyond any calendar of this type in the prior art as known to me.

In order that the invention may be readily understood, a preferred embodiment of the same is set forth in the accompanying drawing and in the following detailed description. Obviously the device is susceptible of structural modification without departure from the invention, wherefore it is to be un derstood that the drawing and description are to be taken in an illustrative rather than in an unnecessarily limiting sense. In the drawing Figure 1 is an elevation of the improved record calendar with one corner of the cover sheet broken away; and

Fig. 2 is a medial longitudinal sectionpn an enlarged scale with the lower portlon broken away.

In the drawing the flexible backing sheet is indicated at- 11, the flexible cover sheet at 12, a metallic binding permanently connecting the two at 13 upon the interposed permanent record sheet portions 14. Separably joined to the permanent record portion 14 by a line of perforations or indentations 15 is the calendar sheet portion 16 displaying the days of the current month in appropriate columnar relation with the days of the week. To maintain the cover sheet upon the record portions and to insure privacy of the entries, a clip 17 is advantageously employed ployed alone or they may both be used in A conjunction.

It will readily be seen that the cover sheet 12 being both flexible and tough will not only insure privacy of the records but also retention of printed matter of the advertiser. The monthly calendar portion is thrown away at the end of the month and the permanent record portion preserved, and at the end of the year that portion of the backing sheet underlying the calendar and below the records may be cut oil and the record portion may be filed away for preservation and future reference. It will be obvious that, sacrificing some of the advantages of the invention, the backing sheet may be omitted without essentially changing the character of the device.

I claim:

1. A record calendar comprising a pad of assembled sheets consisting of a recordportion and a calendar portion separably joined by a weakened line, a cover sheet overlying the record portions only, the cover sheet permanently bound along one edge upon the record sheet portions, and means to hold the cover sheet down upon the record portions.

2. A record calendar comprising a pad consisting of a record portion and a calendar portion separably joined by a weakened line, a flexible backing sheet underlying both record and calendar portions, a flexible tough cover sheet overlying the record portions only, the backing sheet and cover sheet permanently bound along one edge upon the intermediate record sheet portion, and means to hold the cover sheet down upon the record portions.

3. A record calendar comprising a pad consisting of a record portion and a calendar portion separably joined by a weak ened line, a flexible tough backing sheet underlying both record and calendar portions, a flexible tough cover sheet overlying the record portions only, the backing sheet and cover sheet permanently bound along one edge upon the intermediate record sheet portion, and a clip to hold the cover sheet down upon the underlying record portion.

4:- A record calendar comprising a pad consisting of a record portion and a calendar portion separably joined by a weakened line, a flexible tough backing sheet underlying both record and calendar portions, a flexible tough cover sheet overlying the record portions only,the backing sheet and cover sheet permanently bound along one edge upon the intermediate record, sheet portion,

and means to hold the cover sheet down upon the record sheet portions comprising a Weight marginally attached to the free edge of the cover sheet.

5. A record calendar comprising a pad consisting of a record portion and a calendar portion separably joined by a weakened line, a flexible tough backing sheet underlying both record and calendar portions, a flexible tough cover sheet overlying the record. portions only, the backing sheet and cover sheet permanently bound along one edge upon the intermediate record sheet por tion, and means to hold the cover sheet down upon the record sheet portions comprising a weight marginally attached to the free edge I of the cover sheet, and a clip clamping the free edge of the cover sheet to backing sheet upon the intermediate record sheet portions.

GEO. H. DEATON.

Witnesses:

MARY G. BRoWER, E. NYDEN. 

